Jyotipriya Mallick | |
Birth Date: | 17 November 1957[1] |
Office: | Cabinet Minister, Government of West Bengal |
Term Start: | 10 May 2021 |
Term End: | 17 February 2024 |
Governor: | Jagdeep Dhankhar La. Ganesan (additional charge) C. V. Ananda Bose |
1Blankname: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata: | Mamata Banerjee |
2Blankname: | Department |
2Namedata: |
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Predecessor: | Rajib Banerjee (Forest Affairs) Subrata Mukherjee (Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy) |
Successor: | Birbaha Hansda (Forest Affairs) |
Residence: | Kolkata |
2Blankname1: | Department |
2Namedata1: |
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Term Start1: | May 20, 2011 |
Term End1: | May 10, 2021 |
Successor1: | Rathin Ghosh |
1Blankname1: | Chief Minister |
1Namedata1: | Mamata Banerjee |
Office2: | Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly |
Term Start2: | May 13, 2011 |
Constituency2: | Habra |
Governor1: | M. K. Narayanan D.Y. Patil (additional charge) Keshari Nath Tripathi Jagdeep Dhankhar |
Term Start3: | 2001 |
Term End3: | May 2011 |
Constituency3: | Gaighata |
Party: | All India Trinamool Congress |
Jyotipriya Mallick is an Indian politician and former Minister for Department of Forest Affairs and Non-Conventional and Renewable Energy Sources[2] in the Government of West Bengal.[3] He previously served as the Minister for Food & Supplies in the Government of West Bengal. He is also an MLA, elected from the Habra constituency in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.[4] In 2016 and 2021 assembly election he was re-elected from the same constituency.[5] [6] [7] On 27th October, 2023 he was arrested by ED for ration scam.He is currently in jail custody for corruption.
On October 27, 2023 Jyotipriya Mallick was arrested by the ED in the ration corruption case. He fell ill during the hearing after being produced in the court. He was then taken to ED custody after being discharged after 7 days in the hospital. He is currently in jail for ration corruption.[8]